The European Space Agency is cooperating with a group of students and professionals to design, build, and launch a lunar micro-satellite known as SSETI Express.

Originally set up by German astronomers' Working Group on the History of Astronomy, and now maintained under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union by Wolfgang Dick at the University of Bonn, the History of Astronomy.

Andrew Hamilton, astronomer at the University of Colorado, has created a series of animations which allow you to see what would happen as you approach, orbit, and eventually fall into a black hole. The images are complemented by a step-by-step explanation of what you are seeing - Falling Into a Black Hole.